Originally Posted by
pangolin
Seriously. Black and white thinking is rampant in this industry. You have a point but it’s not as extreme as you make it out to be. The regionals don’t need to upgrade EVERYONE. Every upgrade will generate more hours for those FOs. Just a few is enough to keep the ball rolling. A few more than that and we expand. The money hunt is over. Captains are not going to the LCCs. They are holding out for the majors.
The problem there is that you’re going up against math with wishful thinking.
There is, by regulation, a hard cap on how much flying can be done. The number of captains is dictating where the cap is set. You talk about keeping the ball rolling, but what you describe is an airline forced to continually shrink. That is, by definition, not sustainable.
A few more obviously doesn’t equate to expansion, it equates to reducing the rate of the shrinkage. You need some more to get back to even. Expansion? That takes even MORE